CiviCRM 5.76 Release

Published
2024-08-08 07:58
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dev-team - official CiviCRM announcement

CiviCRM version 5.76.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade. The current version of ESR is CiviCRM 5.75.x.

We are committed to keeping CiviCRM free and open, forever. We depend on your support to help make that happen. We thank all our partners, members and ESR subscribers, who are regular financial contributors. If you can, please donate.

What's new in CiviCRM 5.76

Message Administrator
Editing "System Workflow" messages gets big improvements. Enable "Message Administrator" in extensions.

Message Header Token
You can define a message header that you can put on all your templates, and edit in one place.

Grant Tokens
CiviGrant records now have mailing tokens to personalize your grant-related messages.

FormBuilder Conditionals Improvements
Use more operators like "is empty" with conditionals. Use fields that allow multiple selections in a conditional.

Add value to all imports
You can add a new column to imports automatically that has the same value for everyone. For instance, add a financial type "Campaign Contribution" to imported contributions.

Big thanks to Andie Hunt, Alice Frumin and Jon Goldberg for putting up together release notes. See also the version-specific upgrade tasks. The last entry goes back to CiviCRM 5.67, regarding smarty tokens being phased of Message Templates.

This release was developed by the following code authors:

AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin, Andie Hunt; Artur Śmigielski; Benjamin W; Christian Wach; Circle Interactive - Angela Jackson; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy, Samuel Vanhove; Dave D; Fuzion - Jitendra Purohit; Giant Rabbit - Anthony Nemirovsky; Ginkgo Street Labs - Michael Z Daryabeygi; Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe - Patrick Figel; JMA Consulting - Monish Deb, Seamus Lee; Joinery - Allen Shaw; Jonny Toomey; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Nicol Wistreich; PERORA SRL - Samuele Masetto; Skvare - Mark Hanna; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton.

Most authors also reviewed code for this release; in addition, the following reviewers contributed their comments:

Agileware - Justin Freeman; ALL IN APPLI admin; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; Circle Interactive - Pradeep Nayak; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; forumZFD - Marc Michalsky; Freeform Solutions - Herb van den Dool; Fuzion - Luke Stewart; Greenleaf Advancement - Guy Iaccarino; JMA Consulting - Joe Murray.

New Extensions

  • Post message - Civi-rule action to post messages on Slack and Mattermost when an event is triggered.
  • Roles - Provides a way to record associations between contacts and arbitrary other entities, similar how CiviCRM "relationships" record associations between contacts and other contacts.
  • Multisite Extra - Extends the functionality of the domain + multisite extension to include additional implicit filtering per site and tools to manage menus across multiple sites. Designed to support a case with a central site with a collection of subsites.
  • Search Kit Column Display - Adds a column display for the Search Kit. This will allow stacking of fields into columns.
  • Extended Contact Matcher (XCM) - Offers comprehensive configuration options for matching contacts and handling data changes for online integrations and other API connections.
  • Funding Program Manager - Supports processes for application submission, application review, approval, call for funds, payment instruction and proof of use.
  • Entity Construction Kit - ECK provides a user interface and an API for creating and managing custom CiviCRM entities.
  • Big Blue Button Connector - Provides CiviCRM APIs to create meetings in Big Blue Button.
  • HelloAsso Payment Processor - Payment Processor integration for the Hello Asso provider in France.
  • View Results in SearchKit - Adds a link to see all of an event's participants in a SearchKit listing, using the fields that were on the registration form.
  • No IDS on IPN - Fix/workaround for PayPal Standard notifications being blocked by the CiviCRM IDS (security system).

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